The Syrian crisis has been plagued by disinformation,
especially when it comes to the Mainstream Media (MSM) and
its lies about the Syrian conflict to suit their
governments' agendas.

Posted December
17, 2012

In most cases, irresponsible reporting from what were once
considered as "prestigious" news organizations has relied
heavily on "Syrian activists", who happen to be almost
entirely pro-FSA and anti-Syrian government. Massacres
conducted by the Islamist "Free Syrian Army" (FSA) against
unarmed Syrian civilians were casually attributed by those
activists as crimes of the "Assad regime" against a
defenseless population in order to delegitimize the Syrian
government. The FSA would then display dead children that
they just massacred as "victims of Assad's Shabbiha", a
militia loyal to the Syrian government.

A recent episode took place in Aqrab (Hama countryside),
where over 200 civilians were reportedly massacred by the
Shabbiha. Most news organizations went with that narrative.
However, a closer investigation that entails talking to the
parents and relatives of these victims shows a completely
different story. This video has two parts.

Part 1 (starts at
0:30) shows British Channel 4 report on the story
directly from Aqrab.
Part 2 (starts at
6:25) shows Lebanese al-Mayadeen TV report on the story.

Yet, it's the Syrian government that is continuously
portrayed as the one conducting these massacres, whereas it
has been shown, in each case, that it's no entity other than
the FSA that is conducting them, be it in al-Houla, Darayya,
Karm al-Zeitoun, or any other similar massacre.

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